egypt's opposition threatens to storm the presidential palace amid nationwide protests against the country's leader mohamed morsi. and earlier this week the birthplace of the arab spring tunisia witnessed a similar scenes of unrest as anti-government protests were sparked by the assassination of a prominent opposition figure. soon to be cia chief john brennan went through a confirmation hearing this week amid catcalls and protests but it's still hard to tell where the architect of the targeted assassination program will take america's spy bureau. plus concerns arise if the u.s. missile defense shield is fit to fulfill its announced goal repelling any possible strike from iran as classified studies unveiled serious flaws into the constantly system. russia countdown to the two thousand and fourteen winter olympics with

moscow promising a grand spectacle the highly anticipated games are shaping up to be the most expensive in history with huge overspending already costing a key organizer his job. and live from our studios in moscow this is our team thomas certainly glad to have you with us egypt's opposition has called for more rallies and threatened to storm the presidential palace the protesters accuse mohamed morsi of not upholding the goals of the revolution that ousted hosni mubarak two years ago the turmoil has also been fueled by the authorities decision to block the video sharing web site you tube in the country for a month over its anti islamic content that is r t's true reports the decision is only likely to inflame more tensions. there's been

a lot of condemnation of the band by protest movements who see you keep as a vital resource for disseminating information about human rights abuses by the security forces it's also an indication of an islam mind zation all egypt has been a number of quite controversial statements made by these hardline muslim clerics in the last few weeks including a religious edict calling opposition forces to be killed and a muslim cleric speaking to an egyptian channel justifying sex mob attacks on egyptian protesters in tahrir square you have a very restive country here in egypt in the last few weeks especially since the second anniversary of the january twenty five revolution when thousands gathered in the streets of egypt complaining that their president ahmed mostly had not made key changes in demands of the revolution friday we saw more protests as part of friday's day of dignity thousands of protesters gathered across the main rallying points in this in the country which devolved into clashes between anti-government protesters and security forces in the capital here by the presidential palace when

groups talk to the building with molotov they're pushed back by take off and water cannons and so bloody of violence in the in the governor with that's in couple shake as well as violent clashes and. we have more protests on the horizon with further expected violence we don't see this finishing anytime soon gyptian journalist and blogger while iskhandar president morsi and his allies actions are causing the country's citizens to become increasingly disillusioned but the muslim brotherhood right now is trying to do is restore autocratic rule and much like or. governing and i think the way the political actors see it is that barak was not ruthless enough and did not sign down three times enough to sustain his rule and this is what they're trying to remedy you to verdict comes in light of. you know many other decisions that clamp down on freedoms and

it's no surprise that they will try to install the infrastructure necessary to clamp down on. websites that they see as a threat to their rule we're we're going to see more waves of protests and we're going to see more violence because if you look at the situation in egypt the region did not die the symbols just changed we just have new people following the same rules. another country rocked by unrest this week was tunisia public fury very has been ignited following the murder of a secular opposition leader chokri. dozens were injured and more than three hundred people detained during the rallies which ended with anti-government demonstrators clashing with police artie's marie if an ocean has been following the dramatic developments in the tunisian capital forty eight year old lawyer shockley belied criticize the islamist government for creating and really just state in tunisia and burying democracy now belied is dead but his ideas are not in the museum.

the country has been in crisis economic political and social the ruling troika how to chone says it's been a year and a half but we didn't see any progress the death of all come right becomes the last straw. anger moved to the streets with protesters demanding the authorities and mabel to protect its citizens to leave. so i'm crying because below he was a symbol of dignity and a symbol of the defense of the country that this is a political assassination and that means the violence is not over the political short people can lose yet the interior ministry said that one million and they have joined the ceremony that turned into a political manifestation people said that if the crowd reached the city center it would have been the last day of the government. as your attend the funeral of shockwave a late on friday after the seventy try to make their way to the city's main haven't yet to continue to government protests but they were not allowed to do that police

used tear gas immediately was such a central city was packed with people but slogans we're hearing are completely different. carrion islamist flags people masterly in support of the ruling and not a party the local branch of the muslim brotherhood police were at the scene to protest and demonstrators this time this reverse gathering didn't pull more than five thousand participants but the government used this to illustrate that their position was still strong looking at the big men did it prove that people support and believe our party needs all of our revenue or they try to save face but don't have the choice they lost credibility and have no choice but to dissolve the government which is by de facto dissolved already. standing on the brink of a political crisis prime minister protests to form

a new cabinet consisting of neutral politicians his own party rejected the plan and cruz and anxiety over possible farthest pleat and fears a growing that the political divisions may lead to even more victims because i was threaten to another guy from the opposition was attacked at the funerals i don't want to panic and say x.y.z. that person but there is a list of people those who fight for the revolutions principles liberty democracy dignity we're all in danger two years ago tunisia became the first nation to have an arab spring revolution that has been hailed as a success story praised for the minimum of violence and turmoil but as we watch the country face a political implosion it's maybe only now that this crane that has been wound up tightly it's been sprung for three days clashes between police and protesters shook the country leaving many injured and cars burnt out across the city but it all

finished as quickly as it started just hours later the capital looks empty and come and the loudest noise here at the moment is sound of birds twittering here. meanwhile the streets of europe are also lacking stability there is a wave of countrywide protests spain and ireland this week with people expressing their discontent over austerity policies this story and more later in the program. john brennan of barack obama's pick to head the cia and the architect of the drone assassination program has had part of his senate confirmation hearings in this week while critics accuse lawmakers of giving john brennan an easy ride some members of the public weren't shy in expressing their disapproval multiple protesters interrupted the session a raising of posters accusing brennan of being in the driving force. finding the so-called targeted killings operations human rights activists claim the use of

drones against a suspected terrorists is unlawful and leads to a high number of civilian casualties after demonstrators were removed from the hall lawmakers questioned brennan on torture and cia shortcomings however critics claimed that those increase seem strictly ceremonial scholar and author column cavell says that given brennan's views his confirmation could set a troubling precedent. this is a complete denial of our constitutional rights under the fourteenth amendment due process of all and equal protection of the law and yet when the administration is doing here is they're usurping the constitutional right when i have to imagine citizens and saying that we can be judge jury and executioner we can show american citizens abroad without them having their court we can say they aren't yours and we can kill and dangerous this is wonder what they look like ministrations says we

can determine who are the jurors then that means they go anywhere and any american citizen. without any trial without any problems and that is a very dangerous precedent. on tuesday john brennan is said to go through a closed door classified hearing tired out sensitive technicalities the debate is already brewing about what direction he could take the cia as our team is going to touch you can comment. in the shadows no more drones are moving into the mainstream was drone makers in the u.s. military pushing to defend the killing machine drones are more properly titled remotely piloted vehicles allow us to do is to project capability without projecting vulnerability in their revolutionizing warfare by allowing us to see and kill from half a world away a major drone manufacturer lockheed martin has financed an hour long documentary on

drones aired recently on u.s. public television counting the technological capabilities of the killing machine from trailers like this pilots of the predator and its larger cousin the reaper have killed thousands of individual since two thousand and one using remotely piloted aircraft contrary to popular belief actually provides the greatest. dream of ethical oversight for their use this young man in pakistan would probably disagree several of his family members died at the remote hands of a drone more than a thousand other civilians were reportedly killed by u.s. drone strikes in pakistan and yemen we find ourselves murdering people in many cases children with no evidence whatsoever that they're involved in any criminal or terrorist activity the numbers should not come as a surprise considering the broad definition the obama administration gives us to who should be on their kill list the leaked memo on targeted assassinations on the

us justice department suggests the us government can kill people even without evidence that they are actively plotting against america somebody a us citizen or otherwise is believed to be thinking something that could lead to actions against the united states then this illogical logic would present the idea that it would be ok for the president to order that that person be killed to spite the u.n. raising concerns about the legality of the use of drones the u.s. is said to expand its remote control warfare setting up new drone bases across the world drama has redefined war during intervention in libya he made the case that the war powers act in a private because there was no risk to american soldiers and so under that rationale he can expand the global war while in his state of the union address queening that we don't need perpetual war for peace but it is perpetual war when you can drop bombs on any country and then claim that it's not working john brennan

often referred to as the architect of the administration's drone war how it's the new opportunities for the us to wage wars without risking american lives there is another reason a targeted strikes can be a wise choice to strategic consequences that inevitably come with the use of force . as we have seen deploying large armies abroad won't always be our best offense all in all the u.s. now has around ten thousand drones in its fleet not all of them carry weapons of course a lot of them are for surveillance both domestic and international there's a great push both from the administration and the drone makers to present them as america's next best thing john brennan if confirmed will soon be at the helm of the cia and no one doubts that under him the program will expand even further in washington i'm going to go. whether you're watching from los angeles or terre haute indiana i'm glad you're with us i'll be back with more news after a short break you're watching our two.

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happening to the economy. and welcome back you're watching our team with our weekly show glad to have you with us. classified studies have revealed a plan to multibillion dollar u.s. missile defense shield in europe might not be able to protect america from possible iranian air strikes russia has long been critical of the missile shield close to its borders which the u.s. insists is. preventing attacks from iran and north korea. says despite the recent findings washington is likely to pour more money into the complex. i don't think it was ever intended to protect against iranian missiles

something in fact that do not even exist today iran has no nuclear weapons nor do they have the capability to launch a missile all the way to the united states clearly this missile defense system has always been about surrounding russia and china and that's why it doesn't the math doesn't work when you look at having it protect against an iranian system the fact as nato is expanding in its encircled meant russia i think we're only going to see more of these so called again missile defense deployments into various nato countries looking at how this all of our runs our country today how the corporations control our congress i think it's clear that congress will continue to support these systems the new secretary of defense that obama is nominated chuck hagel former republican senator from nebraska was one of the co-sponsors in the senate of the missile defense program so he clearly is

a strong ally of this system. massive strikes have shaken the streets of spain this week as tens of thousands of teachers and students voiced of their anger over education cuts but the government seems to be turning a blind eye to the crowds and says it is committed to belt tightening measures as it struggles to dig the country out of its debt hole the message from the people of spain was echoed on the streets of ireland where tens of thousands of trade unionists gathered in a massive show of anger against severe austerity measures their tough cuts were implemented to please ireland's creditors it's been relying on a joint e.u. international monetary fund alone since two thousand and ten. and angry crowds have also been spoiling the mood of e.u. leaders as they celebrate and historic a budget deal cutting the blocks of spending for the first time ever however the bill left the european parliament unimpressed with its m.p.'s now planning to block

it in a private vote economist james midway weighs in. constitutionally they're well within their rights to reject the thing and send it back and have another go at writing this now whether they actually do that will probably depend on the fine print and the budgets are already present when you politic to said he would be able to support the steel and the heads of one of the major groups in the parliament the socialist group said that they were likely to support it so it could be a rocky ride i think this budget over the next few months cameron's right talk about this being like a reduction in a credit card limits and of course you can have your credit card limit reduced and still spend carry on spending more money now that's almost certainly what's going to happen to britain over the next few years the amounts that britain is expected to pay into the main e.u. fund will increase as a result of increased payments to a new member countries so he's going to pretend that this will show how britain can still be a force in europe how we can push the rest of europe around this glosses over the

fact of course that he would have got anywhere in this without the support of the angle of merkel in particular so he can you can try to push that line the you know he knows what he's doing to europe and that we don't need to go so far as to step out of the european union but i wouldn't see the more euro skeptic members of his own party being particularly impressed by any of this the syrian opposition leaders says he is willing to negotiate with president assad's representatives in the north of the country but this comes as heavy fighting in the capital rages on with the rebels attacked in damascus with mortar shells and roadside bombs they also seized several neighborhoods but were soon pushed down by government counter-offensive dr ali mohammed from the syria tribune news website even if the opposition succeeds in its quest to remove president assad the crisis will be far from over it's just i mean it's just like. the anger from will be nicer ones this is now and it's remarkable really you know with the camera actually on the right even with the you

. listed. it's a blacklist the not of defending it because they know they cannot control it. will not be because lucian is dreaming of the believe that they can control the groups are. singing and the most important part is that these are the princes and they will if you please of people they are not full of the shows they are not fighters for freedom they are just war princes and the coalition will only be able to do what its founder and main financing. entity will ask them to do and if they don't do it and they will lose this financing they would lose the support so they have to do this and simply have they don't know how to hold and they cannot because they are not united and they don't have the same view was so it's a big mess and yet the west would like to see this big mess filling the country. meanwhile in his last public appearance before retiring and pentagon chief leon panetta admitted he backed the plan of arming syrian rebels however the white house

reportedly vetoed that idea russia's envoy to the un told r.t. that despite days the u.s. still has a lot to do with you on going crisis in syria the full version of vitaly churkin exclusive interview is on our website our teen dot com but they're not as these chose to stay clean of the bad guys at some point of the crisis the did realize it seems that things going very wrong you know that various terrorist groups were coming in that the radical islamists the we're we're we're active and that then original scenario they had in mind that it would take just a couple of months to topple the assad regime and then sort of democracy will triumph was completely unrealistic but i mean do notice this is an extremely powerful country definitely with a lot of enter influence on for example such a country as qatar which is reportedly of the main source of weapons and support for for armed opposition so the fact they simply say that they themselves are not

doing that does not does not really absolve them completely from responsibility of what is happening in the. now to some other world news making headlines at this hour at least twenty people have reportedly been killed in a stampede at a railroad station in northern india after a crowded overpass collapsed of there local media says the death toll could rise in the accident occurred as tens of millions gathered on the banks of the ganges river for the comella religious festival. in the united states a one million dollars reward is being offered for any information leading to the arrest of the x. l.a.p.d. officer who has declared war on his former colleagues it's the fourth day of the manhunt for christopher dorner the dismissed officer accused of three murders officials promise that they will look into the fugitives allegations of racism and

corruption among his colleagues that has created the uproar on the internet. trench the rains have caused the severe flooding leaving at least six people dead in peru's a southern city about a queen thousands of people were left without electricity and drinking water at least two bridges were destroyed cutting the city off from neighboring villages peru's rainy season typically begins in february often resulting in heavy flooding and landslides. now what looked like a distant olympic dream for russians has now become a very close reality a countdown has kicked off across the country marking one year before russia hosts its first ever winter games but celebrations and prayers for the unique facilities built from scratch went hand in hand with harsh criticism for overspending and missed deadlines artes and a farmer reports from. the sochi sky this week marking exactly a year to go before the games begin since two thousand and seven piece by piece the

city has been putting its in the dream together in the company in charge of construction says russia will be ready and. we plan to introduce all the facilities before the games start. purcel ities are ready practically all of them of host to test competitions all hotels and limpid villages are in the final phase of construction being referred to and furnished the show jewels to open in the autumn we plan to complete construction long before the end of the year so personnel can train a managers can gain experience in providing a good service however such a vast undertaking has not been without its problems presentation was in the region this week to check on progress and was taking no prisoners the ski jumping center the any venue not yet up and running and it sparked this exchange with russian olympic officials are the costs of this whole facility costing us what's the overall. initially we were assessing the amount of the. story what's

a rough estimate. this initial price is one point two billion. was one point two billion has turned into a billion yes well done good work let's move on. it resulted in the sacking of a key member of russia's limp dick committee at fifty three million dollars the sochi games will be the most expensive in nearly history they have cost ten times more than the last winter games in vancouver and ten billion dollars more than the games however the results can already be seen and they are impressive if you do take a quick look around you can see what money can buy at the center of the limping which is six pennies all within a stone's throw of each other to host the curling the skating and the ice hockey and this is the june in the crown the bolshoi i stay. the past arena was she strikes spectacular skating she i was part of the came down

celebrations and in a year's time it will how you speak and in the ice hockey final in the sheeny subtropical lake ation the cycle of assault she twenty fourteen is hot cool your top because they don't think park is them by the black sea coast. i'm cold because all the alpine events or take place just forty kilometers away. progress is rapid that it was a poor resort has sprung up from nowhere to become the home of alpine skiing by athlone and cross-country courses have also been created along with the bob sleigh track and a road to really well and i spectators to get from the mountains to the coast in just three minutes so she itself has undergone massive upheaval as calamities of road am rail lines are put in place a new hotel is all built but the mayor believes the region will reap the benefits for years to come. our residents are aware of the conditions that have to face

during changes especially on this scale we certainly have many inconveniences because there's not a single street in sochi without renovation going on the roads are regularly dug up which causes traffic jams all the time however the residents are aware that it's necessary for their future brilliant future. then has been overhauled in just six years but the transformation easel most complete in a black sea resort believes it can and will deliver the games to remember this time next year andrew farmer. self chief and coming up we take an in-depth look into the lives of gamers that's after a short break right here at r.t. .